Executive Committee Members

Executive Officers

  • Professor Manuel Montaro Odasso – President
    Department of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
  • Professor Stephen Lord – Immediate Past President
    Neuroscience Research Australia, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia
  • Professor Kim Delbaere – Treasurer
    University of NSW, Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, Australia
  • Professor Jesper Ryg – Secretary
    Department of Geriatric Medicine, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark

Executive Members

Africa

  • Emeritus A/Professor Sebastiana Kalula, The Albertina and Walter Silusu Institute of Ageing in Africa, Capetown, South Africa
  • Nkiru Jibuaku, Evercare Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria

Asia Pacific

  • Professor Anne Tiedemann, School of Musculoskeletal Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  • Professor Devinder Kaur Ajit Singh, Center for Healthy Ageing & Wellness, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    Malaysia
  • Professor Maw Pin Tan, Department of Medicine, Univerit of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Central and South America

  • Doctor Marcelo Schapira, Department of Geriatrics, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • A/Professor Daniela Cristina Carvalho de Abreu, Physical Therapy, Ribeiraro Preto Medical School, Ribeiraro Preto, Brazil

Europe

  • Professor Koen Milisen
    Department of Public Health and Primary Care, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
  • Professor Nathalie van der Velde, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Doctor Toby Ellmers, Imperial College London, England

USA and Canada

  • Professor Teresa Liu-Ambrose, Department of Physical Therapy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  • Professor Joe Verghese, Professor of Neurology and Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, USA

Early Career Researcher

  • Cameron Hicks, Neuroscience Research Australia, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia

First informal Meeting of the Executive Committee, Perth, Australia, November, 2023 Left to right: Kim Delbaere, Jesper Ryg, Anne Tiedemann, Nathalie van de Velde, Manuel Montaro Odasso, Maw Pin Tan, Tahir Masud and Stephen Lord.